It’s been such an honor ❤️

We would like to warmly thank @vikkikatz.bsky.social as she concludes her time as editor of JOCAM. Thank you, Vikki, for your care and commitment to the journal; we are so grateful for your dedication to the community and efforts to make JOCAM more representative of the field's diverse scholarship.

This isn't The Art of the Deal. It's insider trading with a bad comb-over. Step 1: Tank the Market, Scare the Non-Millionaires Step 2: Let the Aristocrats Feast Step 3: Flip, but say ‘Winning’ Step 4: Pretend None of This Ever Happened & Get Your Media Dregs To Do The Same Rinse, Enrich, Repeat.

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

To the world: We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom. —With love, Your American allies.

Abducted in broad daylight for an op-ed in Tufts’ newspaper, is a children & media scholar I know. She’s not a terror sympathizer and it should terrify us all that this happened to her. This isn’t about combating antisemitism—it is much more sinister and dangerous Gift article: wapo.st/3Y68yJv

🚨 New pub— if you’re interested in campus life after 10/7 and what makes for meaningful, civil discourse about the I-P conflict, please read & share: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Democrats should hold 435 town halls this weekend. The ones in Republican districts hosted by local Dems or nonpartisan local officials or even ex-Republicans, with everyone, Democrats and independents and Republicans, invited.

🚨 new pub: #digitalinequality explains most variance in which UGs delayed graduation after 2 yrs of pandemic learning—more than #firstgen status, #race/ethnicity or other s-d markers. Just out in @plosone.org with @abjordan.bsky.social & @ognyanova.bsky.social! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

It is really hard to watch people willfully tear down an infrastructure that allowed us to double lifespans, drastically reduce poverty, and become one of the richest countries in the world.

Ready Fire Aim is a lousy way to govern.

My thoughts on an agenda for researchers concerned about young ppl, political polarization & social media, free to access in @journalcam.bsky.social - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

First they came for the immigrants, and I spoke out, because I’ve read the damn poem before and I know how it ends.

"When Mexico sends its people, they're sending their best. They're sending firefighters to help solve American problems. They're bringing fire fighting uniforms. They're bringing fire fighting equipment. They're bringing kittens down from trees. And all, I assume, are good people."

@latimes.com should be ashamed of itself for not being free to view in the midst of a local disaster

I am so so proud of this special issue. If kids and tech are your thing, read these 16 commentaries by brilliant scholars on where the field must go next—

🎉 The special issue celebrating JoCAM’s 18th birthday it out! The issue brings together 16 commentaries showcasing the incredible diversity and creativity of CAM research and practice from all over the world. 🔓Open access for six months! (1/3) www.tandfonline.com/journals/rch...

A real photo and perfect metaphor heading into 2025.

This analysis concludes that in 2024 “voters […] opted for greater freedom and closer ties with the West and rejected attempts at intimidation, manipulation and disinformation”. Largely true. But the same “West” made a number of largely opposite choices. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Can we just admit that we NEED immigrants for our economy to run, from agriculture to high tech? We’re a goddamn nation of immigrants, aren’t we? Let’s be proud of our immigrant heritage!

December holidays & the Pacific

🤖 What @Roblox's safety updates mean for its users 🆕Read Sara M. Grimes’ post for the #Parenting4DigitalFuture blog: blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4di... #gamedesign #ROBLOX #microsoftxbox

I always refer to EM as South Africa’s (my home country’s) worst export

Last year, Lake Forest, Illinois displayed a menorah for the 8 nights of Hanukkah. This year, the city has decided to only display the menorah for a few hours. Removing the menorah, a symbol of hope and resilience, sends a bad message: that Jewishness is something to be hidden away.

It's the Musgrave tweet. It's always the Musgrave tweet H/T @kjephd.bsky.social for preservation and alt texting

Annual reminder: Die Hard is about using impossibly limited resources to defend a tower from foreign invaders. Die Hard is a Hanukkah movie.

JOCAM vol18, issue4 is out! With great studies from BEL, AUS, ISR, CAN, GER, US, & UK A commentary by Liselot Hudders & Emma Beuckels on Kidfluencing A book review by Helle Strandgaard Jensen on "Histories of children’s television around the world" www.tandfonline.com/toc/rchm20/1...

@journalcam.bsky.social welcome to 🦋! #commsky should follow for the best in children and media research, teaching, & children’s media production

#socal in all her glory

“Is the internet good for children?” For those who missed my #DigitalFutures4Children public lecture with @LSEMedia.bsky.social @5RightsFound.bsky.social You can now watch or listen here Podcast www.lse.ac.uk/lse-player?i... Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U70X...

resharing for newer followers: STATE supreme courts are immensely important for what's next, as progressives hope they can be a place to turn to on issues from abortion to democracy while the right cements federal courts. so i took a turn at the supreme court results in all 32 states that had them.

Happy “when the hell did I subscribe to emails from that business?” to all who celebrate

People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change

Unique professorship. Please share 🫶♾️ Digital communication & society professorship @ddc-sdu.bsky.social and @d-ias.bsky.social. Excellent conditions, extraordinary startup package. Interdisciplinary profile. 📆: deadline February 17! fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

#Staffy cousins having the best Thanksgiving week

Is the internet good for children? My DigitalFutures4Children lecture is on Wednesday at 6.30 UCT If you’re in London, you can just turn up, come and hear my answer, join the discussion, and have a drink after. Or you can register to join online at www.digital-futures-for-children.net/events

I just spent the morning finalizing submissions for Journal of Children & Media’s special issue on coming of age (JOCAM is 18)! It’s going to be AMAZING #commsky

One of the things I still don’t understand is how these tech bros can be pro-technology and anti science.

"...your article "Next-Gen Childhoods" has been accepted for publication in the special issue of the Journal of Children and Media to commemorate JOCAM's 18th birthday" Nice to be able to share my thoughts on where we have been, and where we are going as a field. Forthcoming January 25. #commsky

New article in Journal of Communication looking at changes to trust in news across 46 countries in the last 10 years. Trust in news declined in just over half of countries. It decreased more in countries where TV news use has declined, and/or where social media news use has grown. A thread:

Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀

Pretty much every serious photographer here tries to capture photos of the volcano and the northern lights together. Sometimes, they succeed quite well ;) Photos from Wioleta Gorecka, taken near Reykjanesvíti.

Choose one alive or human

This is feeling a lot like the bad place when it was a good place! Here’s hoping 🤞

My furry office mate took the good chair